Australia's Megafires

About the Author

Libby Rumpff is a Senior Research Fellow and a Principal Investigator in the Quantitative and Applied Ecology group (QAECO) at The University of Melbourne. She is a woodland ecologist and environmental decision analyst. Sarah M. Legge is an Honorary Professor at The Australian National University, and a Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University. Sarah is a wildlife ecologist with 30 years of research and conservation management experience. She was a co-author of Cats in Australia (CSIRO Publishing, 2019) and co-editor of Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities (CSIRO Publishing, 2018). Stephen van Leeuwen is a Wardandi Noongar with a profound respect for Country, a professor and Australia’s first Indigenous Chair of Biodiversity and Environmental Science, based at Curtin University. He is a botanical ecologist with diverse research interests. Brendan A. Wintle is a Professor in Conservation Ecology and a Principal Investigator in the Quantitative and Applied Ecology group (QAECO) at The University of Melbourne. He is passionate about the conservation of Australia’s unique flora and fauna. He was a co-editor of Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities (CSIRO Publishing, 2018). John C. Z. Woinarski is a Professor of Conservation Biology at Charles Darwin University. He has been engaged in research, management and policy relating to Australian biodiversity for over 40 years. He was the author of A Bat's End (CSIRO Publishing, 2018), a co-author of Cats in Australia (CSIRO Publishing, 2019) and The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 (CSIRO Publishing, 2019), and co-editor of Recovering Australian Threatened Species (CSIRO Publishing, 2018).